Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (ENVINO1770890587)
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Rankiteo Score Impact Analysis
Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Inotiv's Ransomware and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Inotiv Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Inotiv breach identified under incident ID ENVINO1770890587.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Inotiv's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/inotiv, the number of followers: 12013, the industry type: Research Services and the number of employees: 1845 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 334 and after the incident was 100 with a difference of -234 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Inotiv and their customers.
On 08 August 2024, Inotiv disclosed Ransomware issues under the banner "Inotiv Hit by Qilin Ransomware Attack Following $35M Animal Welfare Fine".
The Qilin ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on Inotiv, a global pharmaceutical research conglomerate, disrupting operations and exfiltrating 176 GB of sensitive data.
The disruption is felt across the environment, affecting Internal data storage and business applications, and exposing 176 GB of sensitive data, 161,967 files, with nearly 161,967 files records at risk.
In response, moved swiftly to contain the threat with measures like Affected systems taken offline.
The case underscores how Ongoing, and recommending next steps like Organizations handling regulated or high-value research data must prioritize rapid containment, robust backups, and threat intelligence sharing to mitigate such attacks.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating attack vector and vulnerability exploited not specified and External Remote Services (T1133) with lower confidence (40%), supported by evidence indicating disrupted operations, systems taken offline. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified User Execution: Malicious File (T1204.002) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating qilin ransomware gang claimed responsibility. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified OS Credential Dumping (T1003) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating employee records and sensitive data exfiltrated. Under the Collection tactic, the analysis identified Data from Local System (T1005) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating 176 GB of sensitive data, 161,967 files exfiltrated and Data from Network Shared Drive (T1039) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating financial docs, lab reports, research contracts compromised. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating qilin gang exfiltrated 176 GB of sensitive data. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating ransomware attack disrupted operations, systems offline and Inhibit System Recovery (T1490) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating no timeline provided for system restoration. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Obfuscated Files or Information (T1027) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating qilin ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group involved and Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating affected systems taken offline, containment measures. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Inotiv Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/inotiv/incident/ENVINO1770890587
- Inotiv CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/inotiv
- Inotiv Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/envino1770890587-envigo-inotiv-ransomware-august-2025/
- Inotiv CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/inotiv/history
- Inotiv CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://cybernews.com/news/inotiv-ransomware-attack-qilin-pharma-research-testing-animal-cruelty-fines/
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf